Activities and Assignments List, April 20th – April 24th

Here is an update of activities for week of April 20th.
Read this first!

Please choose one activity from each category each day.

Deadlines are flexible. Communicate if you need more time.

I just want to see you participating and doing your best to move forward with learning.

Check for missing assignments in MS Teams. My feedback is in MS Teams or on e-ports.

I have changed deadlines and not added many new things this week, so everyone has enough time. Thank you for your patience as I adjust based everyone’s needs.

Do NEED TO DO items first before going to optional choices.

Do at least one NEED TO DO assignment in MAKER, GENIUS, or UNIT HOUR per day.
Think 90 minutes per day as a guideline for work in Math, LA, Science and Socials.

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MAKER HOUR (60 minutes)
Do something creative! Make something new! Take a picture to document work!

Need to Do:

• ADST Skills – Podcasts: Finish PODCASTS assignment. Due April 24, Friday.
• ART, Critical Thinking – Photography Challenge #1: From last week. Due April 20. See MS Teams.
• ART and Critical Thinking – Photography Challenge #2: See new photo challenge for week. Due April 24th. Info in MS Teams.
• ADST Skills – Soundtrap (only if done with all other assignments):  watch this tutorial on how to use the application Soundtrap. Do not join Soundtrap online as I need to set you up on a class account. Just watch and learn how to use it for making sound recordings. If YouTube is blocked for you, please talk to your parents about watching this. NO DEADLINE at this time.

Optional Choices:

• Visit Ms. Fletcher’s Music Blog for ideas about making music!!
• Watch video on Divergent Thinking Challenge. Make a list of what you could make with these items. Build some of them if you have the materials. If you don’t have one of the materials, feel free to use something from your house supplies.
• Sign up for Canada’s Learning Code Live Workshops to learn about coding.
• Watch  Quarantined Couple Builds Art Museum for Their Gerbils. Make a miniature art museum for our gerbils to visit.
• Watch aboriginal storytelling. What stories do you already know like these?
• Draw, doodle, sketch, or scribble!
• Fold origami
• Create your own puzzle: Draw or paint a picture. Glue it to cardboard from a box. Print and use an online template to cut out the pieces.)
• Do one of the Exploratorium’s Science Snacks Design Challenges
• Practice calligraphy, learn hand lettering, or try designing your own font
• Get creative with Blender, a free, open-source 3D computer graphics software application to develop animations, visual effects, games, and physics simulations.
• Try  knitting, sewing, crocheting, felting, needlepoint, or embroidery.
• Explore tutorials in Microsoft’s MakeCode Arcade. These step-by-step guides show how to modify and create simple games using drag-and-drop code blocks.
• Make a song or beat using this super-fun visual sequencer. If you come up with something you really like, download it and save it!
• Try different photography techniques with a phone camera (when you have a decent collection, choose your favorites and hold your own gallery debut!)
• Do a Gassy Eggs experiment with only raw eggs, heat, ice, and observations!
• Create and decorate a salt dough sculpture
• Make a terrarium mini garden or make a bird feeder
• Help make the world a greener place by making seed balls
• Do Lunch Doodles with the author/illustrator Mo Willems
• Make a marble roller coaster out of found objects in the house
• Make prints using paint and found objects
• Read about and create a 5 Clue Video Challenge for us
• Make a puppet show and present it to your family or us
• Create a website, blog, art journal
• Do SCRATCH or Code.org for coding. Do Tynker coding for free.
• Do a Science-U science activity at home
• Do napkin folding for your home
• Do the Getty Museum Art Challenge — Read about it here.
• Grow some plants from food scraps. See how here. or on this website too!
• Create something from the MAKE Magazine Maker Project Library (most materials can be found in the home)
• Make instruments from things in your home
• Find, pick and dissect a flower to learn its parts
• Make paper airplanes that fly very far.
• Exploratorium California Science Snacks with home supplies.
• Do edible science projects.
• Do a fun science experiment creation using office supplies.
• Make a homemade weather measurement instrument
• Watch GEERING UP UBC Engineers Science online, streamed 11AM every day.

FITNESS HOUR (60 Minutes) 
Get moving, get some exercise, get your heart pumping!

Need to Do:

• Physical Health — Shoe Workout: Due last week. Post in MS Teams. Do the workout once or twice this week to really get your heart rate up!
• Personal Awareness – Be calm: Try the APP CALM. Ask your parents for help to get the app for free.
• Personal Awareness – Be Mindful:  Find a quiet space, put on nice music, look at a pleasant image, and do deep breathing to calm yourself. Try it at the beginning and end of the day.

Optional Choices:

• DO Ultimate 20 Minute Full Body Workout for Kids on Youtube
• Use YMCA Health and Fitness Videos for options of different workouts!
• Complete the Name Work Out (To change things up, use a random word generator, pick a random word from a book or the dictionary, or have a parent/sibling give you a word and work out according to the word)
• Create a circuit that incorporates at least five activities, Do each activity 10 times. Repeat circuit at least 3 times. (Don’t forget to warm up before physical activity! This will help you do exercises properly and help prevent injury.)
• Or, if you can’t go out, go walking a mile on YouTube with Alana
• Create your own fitness routine
• Do Just Dance on video games or YouTube
• Look up Fit with Frank videos to do a fitness routine in the home
• Do Pilates for Beginners (was recommended by my daughter’s dance instructor)
• Do the New York City Ballet Warm Up Level 1 if you like dance
• Do Yoga for Kids for beginners, shorter class with basic poses
• Do Yoga for Kids for a bit longer class
• Do the Scientific 7 Minute Workout from the NY Times
• Go for a bike ride outside with someone in your family
• Use the Healthy Living 25 Ways to Get Moving At Home
• Face Time or Zoom with a friend while doing a workout.

INDIE READING (30 minutes) 
Preferably offline. If online, read something fun and avoid news/current events.

Need to Do:

• LA:  Read 30 minutes for fun, relaxation, or learning each day!

Optional Choices:

• Go on to EPIC and read books from the class assignments list.
• As you read, make a list of words you don’t know and look them up later.
• Write a short story/poem of your own using these new words!
• Read in another language
• Build a fort with a blanket over a table or chairs and do some reading under it
• On Amazon.ca, if you have the Kindle App, there are lots of free books to read
• With a library card, use online resources for Burnaby/Vancouver Public Libraries
• Use Audible for free right now to listen to tons of online audible stories.
• Use the Burnaby School District’s Tumblebooks Account to access books online. Press the ebooks tab at the top. I sent you an Outlook email about how to access this, as you need a user ID and password.
• Higher Level Reading — Project Gutenberg free ebooks
• Open Library — has non-fiction and fiction options, some great for IP!
• Need a break from reading, but love words? Complete a word search or a crossword puzzle.

SERVICE (30 minutes) 
Clean and help others! Connect with your classmates and family. Play! Be kind! 

Need to Do:

• Art – Essential Service Artwork for the Window: Finish from last week. Explanation on the blog. Post pictures in MS Teams. Due April 24th, Friday.
• Social Responsibility and Personal Awareness – Make connection: Finish assigned pen pal responses. Be part of our meetings and/or optional read-aloud time to connect with classmates. Respond to MS Teams questions to let us know what you are thinking and feeling.

Optional Choices:

• Play a pen and paper game with a family member (ex. dots and boxes, sprouts, 24, battleships, Go-Maku, Boggle, etc.)
• Play a card game with a family member (or as a whole family!)
• Look through old photo albums together and share memories
• Play Charades or use the Heads Up app
• Have an untimed Iron Chef contest with the whole family. Choose an ingredient, and everyone makes a different dish.
• Prepare a mini lesson and teach someone something you’ve recently learned
• Participate in the 7PM NOISE outside, done by the community to say thank you to our first responders and healthcare workers!
• Make a homemade gift for members of your family, and learn how to wrap them using Furoshiki, the art of Japanese gift wrapping
• Prepare a musical performance to share with your family after dinner.
• Organize a family game activity.
• Play a round of Rock-Paper-Scissors-Stretch with a family member
• Create a dinner night, with fancy napkins, table, outfits, menus, decorations, etc. so when you can’t go out, there is something fun to do at home.
• Make a shopping list for the family
• Unload or load the dishwasher
• Sweep or vacuum the house
• Call a grandparent, family member, or friend to help them feel connected during this time of isolation
• Help with the laundry — loading, folding, putting things away
• Dust the house or blinds
• Clean windows
• Help with the garbage, recycling, or compost runs
• Clean off counters
• Wipe doorknobs and high-touch spaces with cleaner
• Take care of a pet
• Clean the toilet
• Organize recycling
• Watch your younger sibling so your parents can have a break
• Make a dinner for your family so they have a break from it!

GENIUS HOUR (60 minutes) 
Learn something new and document your learning in some way.

Need to Do:
(all related to inquiry and critical thinking skills)

• IP:  Assigned last Tuesday. Review websites. Post update of research in MS Teams. Due April 24th.
• Digital Citizenship Module:  Finish module online. Reading of module is required; written assignments are optional. See MS Teams. Was due April 17th.
• Questions to Ask When Reading Scientific Claims:  Finish. List the questions from the article you had to read. See MS Teams. Was due April 17th.
• TYPING: Do All the Right Type when you have time after other assignments are all done. Ongoing assignment. We will finish all practice sections by June 10th. Tell me in MS Teams when you have finished so I can check online for completion.

Optional Choices:

• Go to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s All About Birds Parents and Their Young Course. The link is to activities related to bird reproduction (for grades 4/5) which is going on right now!  Advanced version — here is the slideshow for grades 6-8.
• Watch YouTube Channel Global Weirding about variety of climate change topics.
• Watch PBS Digital Studios episodes on variety of science topics.
• Here are 10 Things to do With NASA at home related to space.
• Learn Bird Sounds and Calls from around the world.
• Read New Migration Science on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology All About Birds website, along with many other articles about birds seen during the spring.
• Watch NEST CAMS — shows nests of birds from around the world and at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Explore their resources about birds.
• Listen to an episode of the PODCAST  Book Club for Kids
• Listen to an episode of PODCAST Tumble: Science Podcast for Kids
• Listen to an episode of PODCAST But Why?
• Listen to an episode of PODCAST NPR Wow in the World
• Listen to PODCAST about debate for kids and families Smash Boom Best
• Listen to PODCAST Forever Ago (a history show which explores the origin of just one thing — like sandwiches, video games, clocks and more — while teaching listeners to think critically about history.)
• Interested in science? Check out Radio Lab for Kids!
• Listen to episodes of Everyday Einstein Quick and Dirty Tips for Science Topics
• Learn about Animation Pixar in a Box on Khan Academy
• Play Chess online with Masters
• Watch any of the Numberphile math videos on higher math topics
• Learn how to Beat Box, creating new sounds with your lips
• Questions about COVID-19 and how viruses work? Explore the science of the virus, so you can better understand by doing activities on Exploratorium.
• Watch live jellyfish, whales, penguins, and more on Georgia Aquarium’s webcams. (or animals at San Diego Zoo, the Monterrey Bay Aquarium, the Houston Zoo, or Zoo Atlanta).
  • Pick a favorite animal and research it. Create a fact sheet about it.
  • Research an animal’s habitat. Create a mini habitat.
• Travel the globe and visit one of twelve world renowned museums from the comfort of your home
  • Choose a favorite painting/sculpture and create a copycat piece of art.
  • Research an artist.
  • Choose a piece of art. Write about it. Describe it. Explain why you chose it and how it makes you feel.
• Use Google Earth to travel to a different city & country. Explore Street View.
  • Plan a trip to a new destination. What would you do, see, eat?
  • Make a travel brochure for the destination you visited.
  • Write a postcard from that destination. Include details about the place and what you can see there.

UNIT, NUMERACY, LITERACY HOUR (60 minutes)
Specific learning opportunities at grade level or connected to our unit.

Need to Do:

• LA/Creative Thinking – Invent a Sport:  Assigned last Tuesday. Practice using advanced vocabulary and adding descriptive detail. Write about an invented sport during time of social distancing. Watch video prompt. Post writing on e-port with picture of you playing a part of the game. Write what you can in 60 minutes, or up to 5 paragraphs. See MS Teams. Due April 24th, Friday.
• LA/Creative Thinking -Tell the Story of Lost Shoes:  Assigned last Tuesday. Watch this video prompt and write untold story of your lost shoes. Write 60 minutes, up to 5 paragraphs. See MS Teams. Due April 27th, Monday.
• Math – Financial Literacy, Making a Budget: Finish from last week. Make a Budget for the Library. See MS Teams for handouts. Due Friday, April 24th
• Math – Critical Thinking Window Data:  Finish Outside Your Window activity on You Cubed. See MS Teams. Due Friday, April 24th
• Socials/Science/Critical Thinking — Resources:  Finish from last week. Look for resources in your house. Handout in MS Teams. Due Friday, April 24th.
• Socials/Science/LA — Geology:  Finish. Read pages in Geology book on EPIC and answer questions. See MS Teams. Due Friday, April 24th
• MATH ONGOING WORK: Use IXL to do specific math lessons related to decimals and financial literacy. User ID and password were sent in email. See the blog and MS Teams. Ten lesson sections of your choice due on May 1st. The work on this is ongoing through April and May, so you can work at your own pace.

Optional Choices:

• Check out Science Snacks on the San Francisco Exploratorium’s website and do the activity called Life Size to understand the size of microscopic things. If you can’t print the handout, just make a list of your own of the items on scrap paper.
• Do a MATH WALK — people all over the US and Canada have been using chalk to put challenges out on the sidewalk. On this website, you can see some of them. Click on any one of them for more information and math challenges.
• Play Math PRODIGY using our class account. FINISH IXL assignments first.
• Do Real World Figuring at Yummy Math — my favourite is the Peeps activity.
• Work on old math contests (Gauss, Pascal, Kangaroo, CPECCA, etc.)
• Re-live the Apollo 13 mission in real time on this interactive website.
• Speaking of Peeps, if you have any of those marshmallow treats, here’s a fun experiment about peeps and the speed of light — -please ask parents for help.
• Do some math puzzles and games at Pickle Math
• Try math puzzles at Mathigon
• Look at Oxford Grammar’s 16 Tenses of English. Write a funny example for each verb tense and label the one you are using. You can also see the TED-Ed talk on tenses, which is a bit more complex, but funnier.
• Try these Math challenges that are word problems using a variety of math operations: Between the Numbers.  You may need a calculator! I have the answers for the first set and can ask the author for the rest, as she is on my Twitter Feed.
• Watch UBC Geering Up Videos Doing Science on a LIVE STREAM every day at 11:00 AM. You can also see previous videos if you miss one.
• Use the grade 4/5 Resources on the Burnaby School District’s Continuing Learning Website for literacy, numeracy, or ADST
• Play or create math games using cards.
• Play math games or do literacy activities with dice.
• Write something using a picture prompt on The Learning Network, NY Times
• Make a 15 second Word of the Day Video and share it (NY Times)
• Do a Math Activity on YouCubed Home Activities, Stanford University
• Do the Weekly Waterloo Math Challenges by Grade then check answers later
• We talked about blood types in our first unit — try out this module to learn about blood typing and how they match up patients. Fun game!
• Practice your online research speed skills. Do the Google a Day challenge.
• Learn Math Card Tricks with Professor Liljedahl at SFU
• Do the Missing Square Problem on YouTube
• WIRED Math Lessons from University of Waterloo for Grades 7-10, so better for those who are strong at math
• Learn about the Math Behind Your GPS
• Use other general online math and literacy learning RESOURCES from the Burnaby School District’s Continuing Learning Site.

Questions? Email me!

With kindness,

Ms. D